Marguerite Yourcenar - Böcker

Framed as a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor, Marcus Aurelius, Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian is translated from the French by Grace Frick with an introduction by Paul Bailey in Penguin Modern Classics. In her magn...

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när yukio mishima den 24 november 1970 med stor omsorg förberedde sin död var han 45 år gammal och världsberömd författare. Det var ett självmord som skulle följa ritens stränga regler - och genom vilket Mishima skulle nå den metafysiska tomhet so...

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Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, "Memoirs of Hadrian" has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadria...

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#Prix Femina 1968 #På plats 26 i Le Mondes Topp 100-lista över 1900-talets bästa romaner. »Utsökt välkomponerad.« | David Zimmerman, Ny tid Zenon Ligre är alkemist, fysiker, filosof, präst och läkare. I sina skrifter reflekterar han över ett intol...

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"Nyheten om Nathanaels död på en liten frisisk ö väckte föga uppmärksamhet i ¿Amsterdam" - så lyder den första meningen i En okänd man - en roman som i Margue¿rite Yourcenars litterära universum spelar en nyckelroll. Boken kan placeras p...

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Written in the form of a letter from the protagonist, Alexis, to Monique, his wife, this novel reflects on the incompatibility of art and bourgeois life as the hero explains why he must leave the marriage to serve the demands of art and pleasure.

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At the end of World War I, Europe still remained a breeding ground for restless, adventurous, tormented men in pursuit of a cause. Such was Erick von Lhomond, a German aristocrat engaged with the White Russians in their war against the Bolsheviks.

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By the author of Coup de Grace, Memoirs of Adrian and A Coin in Nine Hands, this novel has been translated by Walter Kaiser.

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During the space of a day in Rome in 1933, a ten-lira coin passes through the hands of nine people--including an aging artist, a prostitute, and a would-be assassin of Mussolini. The coin becomes the symbol of contact between human beings, each lo...

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Preface Phaedra, or Despair Achilles, or the Lie Patroclus, or Destiny Antigone, or the Choice Lena, or the Secret Mary Magdalene, or Salvation Phaedo, or the Dance Clytemnestra, or Crime Sappho, or Suicide

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Set in Rembrandt's Amsterdam, An Obscure Man is the story of Nathanael--innocent, open to experience--born like Everyman upon the stream of life. In A Lovely Morning, Nathanael's young son joins a touring company of Jacobean actors. Anna, soror . ...

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Published to great acclaim in France in 1993, this collection is not only a delight for Marguerite Yourcenar fans but a welcome port of entry for any reader not yet familiar with the author's lengthier, more demanding works. The sole published wor...

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On November 25, 1970, Yukio Mishima stunned the world by committing ritual suicide. In this text, Marguerite Yourcenar unravels the author's life and politics: his affection for Western culture, his family and his homosexuality, his writings and h...

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Set in the Baltic provinces in the aftermath of World War I, "Coup de Grace tells the story of an intimacy that grows between three young people hemmed in by civil war: Erick, a Prussian fighting with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks...

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Marguerite Yourcenar instantly assumes command of our imagination in her novel "The Abyss." Almost before we know it the author establishes a scene and time, and engages us in the fate of two cousins.

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Fires consists of nine monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Antigone, Clytemnestra, Phaedo, Sappho are all mythical figures whose stories are mingled with contemporary themes. Interspersed are highly personal narratives, ref...

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During the space of a day in Rome in 1933, a ten-lira coin passes through the hands of nine people-including an aging artist, a prostitute, and a would-be assassin of Mussolini. The coin becomes the symbol of contact between human beings, each los...

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These tales draw inspiration from the East yet follow no established tradition as their language, rich in images, calls up other, secret meanings, in stories of a painter bewitched by images, a hero betrayed, and of the unhappiness of the goddess ...

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This book of three novellas was first published in Paris in 1982, where it was hailed as the finest book of novellas since Flaubert's Trois Contes.

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This posthumously published collection of essays takes up such diverse subjects as the poet Oppian, Tantrism, the feasts of the Christian year, Durer, the Japanese studies of Ivan Morris, the erotic mysticism of the Gita-Govinda, the eternal spiri...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best effor...

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La collection Connatre une uvre vous offre la possibilit de tout savoir de L'uvre au noir de Marguerite Yourcenar, grce une fiche de lecture aussi complte que dtaille. La rdaction, claire et accessible, a t confie un spcialiste universitaire. Cett...

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